When Microsoft introduced Windows 11 in 2021, its new, stringent hardware compatibility test included checking for the presence of a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) -- specifically, one that meets the ...

You look away for one moment and your Windows 10 PC is suddenly on Windows 11. It sounds unreal but it actually happened to ...

TL;DR: Microsoft is again defending the stipulation to have TPM 2.0 to upgrade to Windows 11, laying out the benefits of the bolstered security it brings in a fresh blog post. However, environmental ...

When Microsoft released Windows 11 a few years back, the PC community went into a frenzy over TPM, or Trusted Platform Module, and Microsoft's requirement for one in the then-new operating system. I ...

A hot potato: The Trusted Platform Module standard describes a dedicated cryptography chip designed to manage many security-related tasks in a computer. The standard was introduced in 2009, but ...

As the end of life is fast approaching for Windows 10, Microsoft is pushing users to upgrade to Windows 11. However, one barrier to entry is the company's requirement ...

Until the release of Windows 11, the upgrade proposition for Windows operating systems was rather straightforward: you considered whether the current version of Windows on your system still fulfilled ...

The deadline to update your PC to Windows 11 is just days away on October 14. If your PC is showing up as ineligible, there might be an easy fix that will save you the trouble and expense of buying a ...

There was an era when a 2 year old PC was considered ancient too. Now the PC market is "mature" and for most people there's not much that a 2024 PC can do that a 2015 PC cannot. The cell phone market ...